英語詩歌《愛情的墳墓》

The Grave of Love

I dug, beneath the cypress shade,

What well might seem an elfin’s grave;

And every pledge in earth I laid,

That erst* thy false affection gave.

I pressed them down the sod beneath;

I placed one mossy stone above;

And twined the rose’s fading wreath

Around the sepulchre of love.

Frail as thy love, the flowers were dead,

Ere* yet the evening sun was set:

But years shall see the cypress spread,

Immutable as my regret.

愛情的墳墓

我在柏樹下掘着墳墓，

就象要把一個小精靈埋葬；

放進往日的定情之物，

這些虛情假意的饋贈我一直珍藏。

我把它們深深埋進土裏，

一塊生苔的.石碑豎在墓旁；

再用凋謝的玫瑰編成花環，

將這愛情的墳墓圍在中央。

這些玫瑰與你的愛情一樣脆弱，

夕陽尚未西沉就已幹枯死亡；

但柏樹還會把你經年廕庇，

恰如我終生難以排解的惆悵。